Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 27 11
Rank change year-on-year +11 -16 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 139 40 63
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 11.59% 8.13% 12.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.32% 28.78% 40.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 29 48
10th Percentile £411 £247 £204
25th Percentile £488 £350 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £669 £538 £607
90th Percentile £688 £600 £640
Yorkshire median daily rate £505 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.37% -5.00% -9.09%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 474 139 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 39.53% 28.25% 31.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 105 106
10th Percentile £367 £264 £210
25th Percentile £450 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -1.19% -8.11%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £650 £631
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £15.60
25th Percentile - - £18.75
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.50%
75th Percentile - - £22.00
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £32.96 £15.00
% change year-on-year +71.42% +119.73% -53.85%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +7 136 £540 +20.40% 41
Doncaster - 1 - - 1
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 11 (7.91%) Confluence
2 10 (7.19%) SharePoint
3 7 (5.04%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.72%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 72 (51.80%) AWS
2 68 (48.92%) GCP
3 25 (17.99%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (14.39%) Entra ID
5 18 (12.95%) GitHub
6 17 (12.23%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (10.79%) Power Platform
8 10 (7.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 10 (7.19%) OpenShift
9 8 (5.76%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (5.04%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (5.04%) Serverless
11 6 (4.32%) OneDrive
12 5 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (3.60%) Azure Storage
12 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (3.60%) PowerApps
13 4 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 3 (2.16%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.47%) Network Security
2 8 (5.76%) SAN
3 4 (2.88%) Firewall
4 3 (2.16%) Kerberos
4 3 (2.16%) NAS
5 2 (1.44%) LAN
5 2 (1.44%) Multicast
5 2 (1.44%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.44%) VSAN
5 2 (1.44%) WAN
6 1 (0.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.91%) Power BI
1 11 (7.91%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.04%) Big Data
2 7 (5.04%) Neo4j
3 6 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.88%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.88%) Delta Lake
5 4 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.88%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.16%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.72%) Parquet
7 1 (0.72%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (20.86%) Jenkins
2 25 (17.99%) JIRA
3 12 (8.63%) Git
3 12 (8.63%) GitLab
4 5 (3.60%) Cucumber
4 5 (3.60%) Gatling
4 5 (3.60%) JMeter
4 5 (3.60%) Postman
4 5 (3.60%) REST Assured
4 5 (3.60%) Selenium
4 5 (3.60%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (2.88%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.88%) LoadRunner
5 4 (2.88%) NeoLoad
6 3 (2.16%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (2.16%) Fiddler
7 2 (1.44%) MSBuild
7 2 (1.44%) Terragrunt
7 2 (1.44%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.72%) Newman
General
1 53 (38.13%) Social Skills
2 50 (35.97%) Finance
3 23 (16.55%) Banking
4 10 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.32%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.32%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.60%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.60%) Legal
6 5 (3.60%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.16%) Law
8 2 (1.44%) Billing
8 2 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.72%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (20.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (16.55%) Architect
3 22 (15.83%) Lead
4 11 (7.91%) Developer
5 7 (5.04%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (5.04%) Cloud Architect
5 7 (5.04%) Security Engineer
6 6 (4.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 6 (4.32%) Consultant
6 6 (4.32%) Data Engineer
6 6 (4.32%) Lead DevOps
6 6 (4.32%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 5 (3.60%) Cloud Solutions Architect
7 5 (3.60%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 5 (3.60%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
7 5 (3.60%) Java Developer
7 5 (3.60%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 5 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (3.60%) Test Architect
7 5 (3.60%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.11%) REST
2 17 (12.23%) OpenID
3 12 (8.63%) LDAP
3 12 (8.63%) SailPoint
4 9 (6.47%) OAuth
5 8 (5.76%) .NET
5 8 (5.76%) SAML
6 6 (4.32%) ASP.NET
6 6 (4.32%) Kafka
6 6 (4.32%) OAuth2
6 6 (4.32%) PySpark
7 5 (3.60%) AngularJS
7 5 (3.60%) Playwright
8 4 (2.88%) .NET Core
8 4 (2.88%) ARM Templates
8 4 (2.88%) Middleware
8 4 (2.88%) React
8 4 (2.88%) RESTful
8 4 (2.88%) Spring Boot
8 4 (2.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (23.02%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.35%) Data Centre
3 12 (8.63%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (6.47%) Onboarding
5 8 (5.76%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (5.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (4.32%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.60%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.60%) FlexPod
7 5 (3.60%) Replication
7 5 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.88%) Public Cloud
9 3 (2.16%) Blog
9 3 (2.16%) Cyber Security Posture
9 3 (2.16%) EMC VMAX
9 3 (2.16%) EMC VNX
9 3 (2.16%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (2.16%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (2.16%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.07%) Linux
2 8 (5.76%) Data ONTAP
3 7 (5.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (4.32%) CoreOS
4 6 (4.32%) VMS
4 6 (4.32%) Windows
5 5 (3.60%) Windows Server
6 3 (2.16%) AIX
7 1 (0.72%) Android
7 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (52.52%) DevOps
2 66 (47.48%) CI/CD
3 33 (23.74%) Cybersecurity
4 30 (21.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (19.42%) Test Automation
6 26 (18.71%) Observability
7 25 (17.99%) Agile
7 25 (17.99%) DevSecOps
8 23 (16.55%) Containerisation
9 22 (15.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 21 (15.11%) Analytics
10 21 (15.11%) Platform Engineering
11 20 (14.39%) Identity Access Management
11 20 (14.39%) Microservices
11 20 (14.39%) Stakeholder Management
12 19 (13.67%) AI
12 19 (13.67%) Migration
13 18 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (12.23%) Cloud Security
15 15 (10.79%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (33.09%) Python
2 28 (20.14%) Java
2 28 (20.14%) SQL
3 16 (11.51%) PowerShell
4 11 (7.91%) Bash
5 6 (4.32%) C#
5 6 (4.32%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.60%) Bicep
6 5 (3.60%) Go
6 5 (3.60%) Scala
7 4 (2.88%) Cypher
7 4 (2.88%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.88%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.44%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.72%) Groovy
9 1 (0.72%) X++
Qualifications
1 11 (7.91%) Degree
2 8 (5.76%) AWS Certification
3 6 (4.32%) CISSP
3 6 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.60%) OCP
4 5 (3.60%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (2.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (2.88%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.88%) CCSP
5 4 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.88%) CISM
5 4 (2.88%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.16%) CCSK
6 3 (2.16%) NCDA
6 3 (2.16%) NCIE
6 3 (2.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.72%) GIAC
7 1 (0.72%) RHCA
7 1 (0.72%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.91%) QA
2 6 (4.32%) NIST
3 5 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.60%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.88%) HIPAA
5 3 (2.16%) GDPR
5 3 (2.16%) GRC
5 3 (2.16%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.44%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.72%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (14.39%) Active Directory
1 20 (14.39%) Docker
2 14 (10.07%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (7.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (5.76%) vSphere
5 7 (5.04%) NFS
6 5 (3.60%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (2.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (2.16%) Hyper-V
7 3 (2.16%) SRDF
7 3 (2.16%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.72%) Ceph
8 1 (0.72%) KVM
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 42 (30.22%) Kubernetes
2 40 (28.78%) Terraform
3 22 (15.83%) Ansible
4 9 (6.47%) Grafana
4 9 (6.47%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.76%) SnapMirror
6 5 (3.60%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (2.88%) Kustomize
7 4 (2.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (2.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (2.16%) Argo
8 3 (2.16%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (1.44%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (1.44%) NetBackup
9 2 (1.44%) SnapVault
9 2 (1.44%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.72%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.72%) Istio
Vendors
1 39 (28.06%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.67%) Google
3 13 (9.35%) Databricks
4 12 (8.63%) ServiceNow
5 10 (7.19%) Red Hat
5 10 (7.19%) VMware
6 8 (5.76%) NetApp
7 7 (5.04%) CyberArk
8 6 (4.32%) OpenAI
8 6 (4.32%) Splunk
9 4 (2.88%) Alibaba
9 4 (2.88%) Centrify
9 4 (2.88%) Okta
9 4 (2.88%) Oracle
10 3 (2.16%) 3PAR
10 3 (2.16%) Aruba
10 3 (2.16%) Cisco
10 3 (2.16%) Dell
10 3 (2.16%) EMC
10 3 (2.16%) Veeam